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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duffbear249:
Ok got the phone through Orange and I am currently personalising the device.

Couple of questions

1. When I try to download some Apps it is saying they can get access to my Location, Text Messages, Memory Card etc etc is this anything to worry about, wouldn't like people having access to that information.

2. Do you reccomend the Anti-Virus apps, by that I mean is there a HIGH risk of my details being cloned using the phone online purchase items?

3. Why does it make you create a GMail account?

4. Can you put a screensaver on rather than it locking after 10 seconds?

5. How do I set the weather homescreen to my current location as it always reverts back to UK when I go back to homescreen after changing it unless I am doing it wrong?

6. Can you get MSN Messenger on it?

7. Also everytime I try and go online like Youtube etc it states there is no internet connection, I then have to go into settings and turn on Mobile Network everytime I want to go online, is there not a way where it will automatically connect to the internet everytime I want to open an App etc or do you just leave the mobile network constantly on?

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgrec92:
1. nothing really to worry about, most of these apps genuinely have a reason to access these things, a messaging client would for example need access to a LOT of your phone.

2. this is a very recent thing, never heard of or heard of anyone who has had viruses on android.

3. gmail is required so that you can back up all your data to it, and it is also linked to the market, so if you pay for an app, and then factory reset your phone, you won't have to repay for the app because it's registered in your gmail name (plus it's a google phone ;)

4. no, and this would really drain the battery if you don't let the phone sleep when not in use.

5. drag the clock widget over the bin, re-add the clock widget to your homescreen, it will give you a list of locations to select from, choose 'my location'.

6. the official msn messenger is only available on 3 but there are many in the market which work perfectly such as 'msn talk'.

7. you can leave it on but this will drain the battery, add a widget to your homescreen, click on settings, and add mobile internet and wifi, this will out on/off toggles on your homescreens.

your welcome ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Number22:
1. Depends on what the app is supposed to do. If it requests information that has nothing to do with it's function, then think twice about installing it.

2. I am personally used to the security that Linux has to offer and as long as you use trusted apps and don't give root access to shady apps, you should be o OK without security software.

3. Because it is a Google OS that uses Google services which, in turn, require a Google account.

4. I don't know about this, but I do know it would kill your battery, even if possible.

6. Try eBuddy from the Market, it's a good service.

Hope this helped!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duffbear249:
Thanks for the very helpful respose, in reference to question 1 I am trying to download novelty soundboards, shazam etc which are asking for my location, call identity and SD Card info, surely they wouldn't need that type of information. Can I presume that because these apps are on the official market that the developers are reputable and regulated not to misuse the information?

One Again Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgrec92:
most of the time yes, just don't install anything suspicious, shazam might need your location to find a store where you can buy the music and sdcard so that it can download the songs to your sdcard, there really is more to an app than you think :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duffbear249:
Excellent Point, Thanks for clearing that up.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Ricotter:
Hi,

I'm looking for a "to do" or "task" list app that has a 4x4 scrolling widget. Been looking for a while....

Thanks.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Jep4444:
you can combined astrid with a calendar for that function, pure calendar has scrolling and i know one other calendar does(with astrid support), i just can't remember which one ATM
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] makya53:
That's what I use and its great like cake.

sent from my badass incredible
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bushbox browser:
The other one is Agenda Widget, it has a free version as well which is really functional and has a 4x4 widget, has astrid and gtask integration.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] le3ky:
only issue i have with agenda widget is you cant have one widget for calendars and one for tasks, the calendars seems to be global.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Skardy:
If you have an HTC you can just use their widget.

(widgets -> get more HTC widgets -> tasks (notes sucks))
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] chmckay:
TaskIt (available at Lakeridge Software in beta form) has a 4x3 (with a 4x4 coming this week). It doesn't support scrolling the tasks, yet. But it will since I just found the code to implement this on ADW.Launcher, LauncherPro and Home++.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eec007:
Did everyone watch Apple's press conference today? If not it's available on engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/live-from-apples-iphone-4-press-conference/?sort=newest&refresh=0

So since every smartphone has a weakspot I'd like to know where the EVO's weakspot is. Has anyone found it? Maybe Apple doesn't think the EVO is a smartphone, therefore it has not weakspot? ;)

update:

Just to be clear, "weakspot" is referring to a way to hold the phone to get the signal strength to go down.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supdawg:
I heard if you stuff it in your rectum, you drop more calls.

:D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerryparid:
If you cup the top of Evo with your hand, Evo will lose signal
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siwelk:
Its near the top of the back of the phone. Try covering it with you hand (the camera, leds, speaker area)

I do this and drop 2 bars immediately
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akulamenuri:
It is towards the top. Im kinda surprised that any phones have side antennas when the phone is gripped from the sides :confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oblivion0:
After scratching the damn thing today, I'd say the jutting 8MP camera in the back of the bloody thing.

Slightly marred the sweet red paint job...guessing they opted for aluminum versus stainless steel. Boo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
haha if i hold a evo in a completely unnatural way cupping the top of the phone while holding the bottom with my other hand for stability, it drops two bars, but not the call....proof the iphone 4 design is flawless.....what a BS press conference
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrog27:
Don't act like you weren't the one trying it out!

Sent from my Evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
Inside of a bomb shelter.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SPENONE:
WIN reply is WIN
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eec007:
don't believe everything you hear. someone should test this out. hahaha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eec007:
I must have a sprint tower above my head cause I can't get the signal strength bars to budge from full no matter how I hold it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paradox4286:
This must be quite awkward to hold a phone call this way
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liemydude:
We will never share the Evo's weakspot with you... We must protect it for the good of mankind =P
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EtherealRemnant:
I don't have a weakspot... unless my Innocase is preventing me from finding it. No matter how I hold the phone I have the same bars.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davesters81:
Yea, Apple only showed the few newer phones that had the drop in bars when held the same way as iPhone 4.

Is this good design by HTC to have it near the top where you never hold it naturally? Or just the way it worked out? Since everyone in the industry is fighting this problem as Jobs said, wouldn't they develop the phone so the antenna would not get blocked or attenuated when held naturally?

I don't know enough about that kind of engineering stuff, just some things I have been wondering. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
Actually in the manual somewhere it tells you where to avoid covering the phone. If I remember correctly it's by the volume rocker?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akulamenuri:
Im going to say it was a good design move by HTC. The Bold 9700, Eris, and Omnia II (the three phones he tested signals with) were all released last year. He didn't make references to the iPhone4's more direct competitors (HD2, Incredible, Evo, Droid X) because they don't have this problem.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casshern:
I covered the phone up all sorts of ways, sans the rectum thing, and the best I could get it to do was drop a bar on the WiFi strength. Network coverage was never phased?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donatom3:
The best way to take an Evo out quick is a pointed object real quick to the center of the screen. That's definitely the Evo's weak spot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GHOST99K:
Sorry no weak spot on evo and stop listening to that idiot Steve jobs
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sprockethead:
No no no. I've known plenty of iPhone owners that use their phones this way. Well, they might as well be. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballr4lyf:
Cover the area directly left of the battery symbol with your thumb, and I guarantee you that you wont see any bars on your Evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EtherealRemnant:
ROFLMAO that's awesome
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geniusdog254:
I didn't know that about the Evo, that's interesting.

Good post btw, and I for the most part agree with you, but there are a few weak points in your theory. For one, the Droid is a metal casing with a soft-touch coating on it (assuming the Droid X is the same) and it doesn't have any attenuation issues. My Droid has superb radio performance as a matter of fact.

Second, you can force attenuation on the Evo by covering it, so that design isn't exactly foolproof. It isn't a major issue like on the i4, but it can be done.

Take your battery cover off, see all the little things that look like their taped down? They're all marked with XD-01. Those my friends are your antennas. I'm not sure which corresponds to which radio, but there are 5 (wifi/bt, 3g, 4g, gps, and fm). I would assume the one in the top left is 3G since it is the largest and the least likely to get covered. The top right is probably GPS or WiFi judging by the size, and whichever of those 2 isn't there is one one on the right side, by the battery. 4G is probably the long one on the lower to mid left, since it is large and shouldn't be attenuated too bad. The bottom right I would assume to be FM or BT, not sure.

Anyways, back to my point, cover up the top left one, the one by the LED flashes, watch your signal drop. It isn't as bad with the cover on, but it's there.

Just my $.02 :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b1indsided:
i cant stand steve jobs that dude is such a female dog..always makin excuse and never bein a man and admits when he messes up..THATS why i cant stand apple..cuz they hang on the sack of a man like "steve jobs"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siwelk:
If I cup the top with my hand tightly I will lose 2 bars around work and maybe just one at home. Its a completely unnatural way of holding the phone though. It doesn't affect my normal use at all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkinnison90:
Weird.. I can't force my EVO to lose signal xD.

F Jobs, haha.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IceCreaMan:
If you cover or cup the bottom of the evo you will lose WiFi signal or atleast a couple of bars. Load up WiFi analyzer and it will show you the signal strength is cut in half just about.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cal3b:
almost all phones have some spot that you can cover to make them lose signal. just not to the extent that the iphone 4 does. also other phone manufacturers thought to put a non-conductive layer between you and the antenna so you dont short it out. thats the difference, other phones you can cover it up with the iphone you are actually shorting the antenna out. all they need to do is manufacture the iphone with a thin clear plastic layer over the antenna and the problem is solved. they never noticed it before because all of the test models were in cases disguised as a 3gs.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] campchi:
Behind the main camera.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pflatlyne:
The Evos weakness is Kryptonite. The older win mobile phones had the same weakness. In an attempt to take over the phone market with the I-Phone 3g,Steve Jobs had his engineers come up with a synthetic form of kryptonite. He used it on a Windows Mobile phone and it caused it to actually SPLIT into an evil smartphone and a good smartphone. Thats how the Evo was born,and why,other than its weakness to kryptonite (the synthetic stuff no longer works as there is no more evil left in it to split off) its pretty much perfect. The I-Phone 4g is the other evil half of that Win Mobile phone and we know how bad thats turning out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCL1981:
It makes perfect sense for the antenna to be up in the corner by the sprint logo. Think about it, that is the only spot your hand will never be. When vertical, you hold it from the sides closer to the bottom half. When sideways, the sprint logo remains the top left corner where you hands again are nowhere near. Unless you hold the phone upside-down and backwards, you won't be causing attenuation with your hands.

Those that can't replicate this, it's just because the signal is so strong in your area, you can't attenuate it enough to show on the meter.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nckfrs:
im on the lastest fresh release with full nand unlocked and new recovery righten so my screen has major touch issue cant unluck it maybe once every 10 min of trying so i want to return it but the delimia is i am running fresh and ruu trys to reboot the phone but it gets stuck at a weird HTC boot screen not the white one its black and gray letters i believe and it doesnt go into recovery any help would be greatly appreciated
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iammuze:
try flashing back to 0.5.3 (don't bother wiping) and then running the ruu. let me know if that works.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nckfrs:
tried

ive tried that tried both ruu they do the same thing also found a update.zip totaly stock but says it was a bad file :/ ugh and now i cant get it into usb mode cuz the stupid screen i hate when manufactures have issues and dont recall
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidja92:
ok i have just figured it out i just did this. go to the evo rom wiki its stickied at top and download the 1.32.xxx.6 rooted stock rom..flash that rom ono ur evo. then do simpleroot for 1.47 and re root ur fone and from there u can downgrade or go to stock 1.47...and u should be stock again.

sorry i have no links i just cant post any yet
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FusionX:
get recovery.img from steps 1 and/or 2 of roooting from toast and place recovery.img on /sdcard

adb shell

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

reboot recovery
[HD2 Accessories] Osca:
Title pretty much says it all.

my jawbone arrived today (which works perfectly on the HD2 by the way), just curious if this is a possible feature?
[HD2 Accessories] waichai:
If your jawbone's model is ICON, then yes. You have to enable A2DP profile. Check jawbone's site for more info how to enable A2DP. I don't have Jawbone, but i am thinking to get the Jawbone's ICON for music and movie.
[Android Themes] crznsunshine:
I was wondering if anyone here has images to make Lockbot screens. I am looking for the icons and the gray bar in the attached screenshot. I want to try and recolor them to make different "themes". I tried the search function, but no forums came up. Hope someone is nice enough to help this newbie. :)
[Android Themes] tehseano:
Open up any theme or rom, and navigate to /system/framework-res/framework-res.apk/res/drawable-land-mdpi

You'll find all the images there.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rsotbiemrptson:
Hello,

I need help setting up permissions for a certain program so I can have it installed from my custom rom and work correctly. The line I have is: set_perm_recursive 0 0 0755 0755 DATA:data/com.swype.android.inputmethod, but I am having trouble figuring out what numbers to put for the permissions. I would appreciate any help or direction to an answer as all of my searching and trials have ended in a failure.

Thanks,

Rsotbiemrptson
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Know UNIX?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=524268

Look for chmod and chown documentation on the web, really easy to find and see, what the numbers mean.

And here's a suggestion for better Google usage: write "set_perm_recursive parameters" and look at the 3rd result. You won't even have to click on the link.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rsotbiemrptson:
I don't know how I missed that, just one of those days. I don't know UNIX but I am slowly learning.

Thanks,

Rsotbiemrptson
[Vibrant General] upbeat.addict:
Is anyone else having issues with the tmob vibrant usb debugging driver from the android SDK? They won't install because windows is saying they have no info concerning my hardware. Thanks in advance for any help.
[Vibrant General] Krycek:
Here is a link to the 64-bit drivers which worked for me:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x64.shtml

And here is a link to the 32-bit drivers, although I have not tested them:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x86.shtml
[Vibrant General] tq745:
i can confirm that the 32 bit drivers are working...
[Vibrant General] Oskiee:
Installed the 64 bit drivers on w7 ultimate. Still cant get to either of the phones storage.
[Vibrant General] tissimo:
Coming from a G1 (haven't received my Vibrant yet) there will be a notification to mount the SD Card so you can use them on your PC (when you connect the USB cable) and you wont need any drivers for it (acts like a flash drive to the PC). Is this not the case for the Vibrant?

The Debugging drivers should have nothing to do with the SD Storage on the phone and mounting it up to the computer.
[Vibrant General] djgromit:
I've run the 64-bit drivers at home and they worked famously.

Would it be possible for someone to post the 32-bit ones in a zip format somewhere? We block exe's here at work, and I'm getting 'The content is not supported on this phone.' when trying to download from the links above on my Vibrant...

The stock usb_drivers from the SDK just don't want to work for debug mode on it...blarg.

Thanks...
[Vibrant General] Oskiee:
Its does the same thing, shows the prompt on the phone to mount the card for computer. However, as soon as i connect it my computer says the device isnt recognized, and i cant see either the phones available 14gb or the SD card.
[Vibrant General] MINUS Stl:
I'm having the same issue with the 32-bit ones. The .exe installs fine, but after plugging in my phone, I get that error. Clicking on the balloon shows an 'Unknown Device'. Double-clicking on 'Unknown Device' then clicking on 'Driver' then 'Driver Details' gives this: No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device

:confused:

EDIT: Nvm. Bad USB port. Had a few of them stop working a few months back. Guess I forgot. Up and running now! :D
[Vibrant General] upbeat.addict:
Spot on! 32-bit is working fine for me. Appreciate it.
[Vibrant General] skater4690:
cant get droidexplorer to work any ideas?
[Vibrant General] KLeY_NoLimit:
works on windows 7 ultimate x64

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bastic:
Hi,

I recieved my OTA update today.

And now I have no internet on the mobile! at all (except WiFi)

hard reset did not helped....

Any ideas what can be the problem ?

Lukas
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bastic:
heh never mind...after 2 hours, 2 HR internet is back...just came back ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carguy4471:
I'm debating going to launcher pro but was wondering a little something.

If I just change my default launcher to launcher pro, is sense then disabled or do I have to remove all the sense widgets from my current sense setup first??

I'd like to leave my setup as is and change over to launcher pro, in case i decide to go back to sense.

Thanks all!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erikivy:
I haven't used Launcher Pro, but have gotten quite familiar with ADW.Launcher. In my experience, you don't have to do anything to Sense when you start using an alternate launcher. If you clear the defaults for your alternate launcher, you can pop right back into Sense and still have everything just the way you left it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samrozzi:
well i was wondering if i set LP as default, can i delete htc sense from phone? like the dock
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abanh:
You don't have to do anything with Sense. You can switch back and forth between the two (download Home Switcher in the market to easily switch back and forth). The only thing is Sense widgets only work with Sense (you can't add the Friendstream widget to one of your screens when using Launcherpro). The dock you see with Sense is different than the dock in Launcherpro.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
Yeah, used to go from one to the other when I first started dealing with the different launchers. Can still have your regular "Sense" setup and switch between your "ADW" launcher (or even LPro for that matter). Pretty handy and quick. Just hit the home button when not checked as default. If you need that home button to display all screens at once, there are swipe functions for that. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laydros:
If you are rooted you can delete /system/app/rosie.apk, but it wouldn't really provide any benefit. It doesn't start automatically and take up ram or anything.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginjeet:
Defaults wiped

I have tried this on a couple roms so far, same problem.

I have Fresh Evo running currently, with Launcher Pro as my choice for daily use.

Before it was Baked Snack.

Every time I reboot, or change battery, etc, I have to go through the default choice again. It won't save. I've checked through applications and once they're set all looks fine. I do know how to set them that way as well.

But once the phone has been cycled, I have to give the choice again at start and when exiting gmail or the first app I exit.

Anyone else know of this? Fix? Ideas?

I don't think it's a rom issue, which would be a lot easier to get an answer for.

Thanks.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enriqrez:
I searched all over the internet and was unable to find an answer or solution.

I Installed RegawMOD's latest rom.

Wifi was working just fine, The last time i remember that it was working was before used the toolbox and before installing 2 or 3 games. I think that something messed with my wifi driver because when i try to turn it on it says "unable to start wifi", then when i try to turn on airplane mode it says "unable to turn off wifi" When i try to run the Wireless Tether it says that the tethering started with errors that i should check the log. The log says the following from the bottom going up:

Tethering now running DONE

Enabling access control DONE

Enabling IP Forwarding DONE

Enabling NAT rules DONE

Activating wifi Interface FAILED

Configuring WIfi Interface FAILED

loading wlan.ko module FAILED

Does anybody have any useful information that may pertain to my situation?

Everything else is working perfectly. this is the only thing that has ceased to work.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VinceOB:
This belongs in Q&A, not Dev.